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Internet Café (Interview)
Internet Café (Interview)

Author(s): Şerban Anghelescu
Subject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Muzeul Ţăranului Român, Editura Martor
Keywords: postcommunism; transition; internet café; virtual world; nickname;

Summary/Abstract: We often play on the Internet, and the players are from all over the country, and sometimes from abroad. Your Internet server is not in Bucharest but in Buz`u or in some other city or even abroad. Our partners were the two, three, four, five guys in the café and others all over the country. You access the Internet and you get a list of all the players who have nicknames, one weirder and crazier than the next, and it’s only normal that after countless hours of playing together you get to know them all. During the game we can communicate with each other in writing. When we meet each other in the street we call each other by our nicknames simply because we don’t know the others’ real names.

  • Issue Year: 2005
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 177-181
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: English